How do you keep track of making sure you ar... - Healthy Eating
How do you keep track of making sure you are getting your recommended daily amount of fruit and veg
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I have a different smoothie most days, and make soups and freeze them even have soups in summer, put fruitin salads.like to eat raw fruit.
It sounds like you have got it covered
The term 'fruit and veg' is an industry construct according to Garry Fettke. Too much oversweet modern fruit is harmful because it contains too much fructose. Also too much high oxylate green veg like kale can be harmful to some people.
I think we all have to do whats best for ourselves, our bodies tell us if something is wrong. There are lots of differen't fruit and veg that causes flare ups with my IBS.
I hadn't really thought about the damage that the push to eat your "fruit and veg" is doing to some peoples health until I read this article (below). The article doesn't state it sources but if it's true that people try to meet this arbitrary target (of 5 a day or whatever it is now) and they do so by eating super sweet fruits then it's not good advise for the majority of people.
theguardian.com/food/2021/s...
Yes, a lot of people still think that the unhealthy part of a burger is the fat when in fact it is the bun.
My wife is very good of insuring that our means include vegetables and fruit!
That's great
Any additional record keeping is a bind, I suspect lots of us would rather be doing something more interesting than writing down or otherwise recording the minutiae of our diets. I rely on keeping buying and harvesting fruit and veg and seeing it disappear.Yesterdays harvest was a largish tub of black mulberries, not sure my hands will ever look the same. Today I will pick runner beans, cut courgettes and dig up spuds and pull up a giant beetroot. All way more interesting than writing stuff down.
Fair enough
Most of my meals have at least five different types of veg in them and desserts are usually fruit based so it’s not really a problem. It helps that I can’t eat bread, pasta and pastry unless I make my own gluten free versions and it’s the same with biscuits and cakes. It means such things are kept as occasional treats rather than regular items. I also grow a lot of vegetables and enjoy eating them.
That is really good
I can't eat green veg like kale because it interferes with my INR reading. Also things like grapefruit are out. I don't eat potatoes or pulses or tinned beans because I don't like them. Also, being single, fruit, which is expensive on a pension, gets wasted. I tend to farm shop now to avoid waste. I eat a lot of salad and fish, very rarely meat other than chicken and bacon.My diet is as healthy as it can be and like others I'm not sure I want to spend time recording everything.
That's fair enough
We always have fruit after lunch and plenty of vegetables with dinner and fruit again for dessert. I don't keep a record, just make sure I buy plenty of both on weekly shop.
Same here
Hi Debs,
Great job with the poll. 
For me, I try to get the fruits and vegetables I'm allowed to eat and add them either to a fruit and cottage cheese salad and/or pack them for a lunch when I go to my job during the week. With the vegetables, I have them with some lunches and all my dinners each day/evening-- depending on the day/menu.
That sounds like a great Idea Leah 😊
Thank you for saying that, Debs. I have a lot of favorite fruits and vegetables that we have each day. One is broccoli.
That's definitely the way to go 😊
I don't, I'm lucky if I eat one piece of fruit and veg a day, unless it comes out of a can, does bread count as a vegetable?? 😹😹😹
Well it could do if you had sweet potato bread 😁
I don't really. I'm vegetarian so I just stock up on plenty of fruit and veg then eat it at every meal and for snacks in between (love raw veggies with salsa or hummus). I usually have at least 2 or 3 veggies with lunch and dinner, more if it's salad. Most of my fridge contains fruit and veg which I restock every week and the only things that get composted are peelings. egg shells and teabags. I just eat my way steadily through it all.
That sounds ideal, an excellent way of getting more than your five a day
For lunch I have salad in the summer and soup in the winter, plus more veg at dinner.
Sounds ideal to me
I don’t eat much fruit apart from some berries because I’m on low carb and there’s too much sugar, especially in juices and smoothies. Plenty of low carb veggies with my meals.
thats good, yes fruit is a bit of a sticking point
I limit the carbs I get from grains as I find it easier to control my weight that way and often don't eat any in a day. When I eat potatoes they are mostly steamed new potatoes or baked sweet potatoes. But then I'm not diabetic.
That’s more or less what I do, I may have a couple of slices of granary bread one day but none the next day. I definitely don’t eat anything with white flour and/or sugar but I do have a few potatoes occasionally. I mainly live on meat, eggs and vegetables and healthy fats. I love strawberries and double cream which are allowed on LCHF. I don’t get hungry that way and I have lost a stone over the last two months. I have also lost my sweet tooth, I can now walk past a display of cakes without a second thought.I started this because I was told I was in danger of becoming diabetic.
I don't really need to keep track of my recommended daily fruit and veg intake as healthy eating is a part of my day to day life as I stock up on fruit and veg whenever I run out. It really is my way of life.
Looking forward to your next survey.
Definitely the best way 🙃
